Georgi Kantchev, Wall Street Journal, explains what’s been going on in the Russian gas industry, here... “Directly squaring off against U.S. shale
Gasoline/diesel margins… EIA
The EIA’s Today in Energy, here, highlights a tale of two petroleum products: ”Flattening year-over-year growth in gasoline demand in the United
Oil’s Huge Drop… WSJ
Stephanie Yang and Amrith Ramkumar, Wall Street Journal, do an excellent job writing about the collapse in crude oil prices, here... "As economic
Options skew is bearish… Bloomberg…
Alex Longley, Bloomberg, has a nice chart showing the degree to which out of the money put options are in demand relative to out of the money calls...
WTI options update…
Yesterday's crude oil options' volume was heavy with over 340,324 trading... Prices settled sharply lower, implied vol was up 12.3, to 48.8, based on
Natural gas volatility is back!
Here is the long term chart of at the money implied vols for natural gas using the second nearby option:
Investors hit by natgas swings… Reuters
My bias is toward buying options... Here is Reuters describing what happened to a company actually called OptionSellers.com in the natural gas
ICE CO2 Allowance Futures/update…
Updating an old post: Here is the chart, from Barchart.com: Reuters has this: ”Carbon permits traded under the EU’s
Gasoline vs. diesel cracks.. EIA
Gasoline vs. diesel crack spreads from the EIA’s This Week in Petroleum, here... “Gasoline crack spreads (the price difference between crude oil